McGallen & Bolden Group Wins Bronze Stevie® Award in 2019 International Business Awards®

McGallen & Bolden Group Wins Bronze Stevie® Award in 2019 International Business Awards® for PR Agency of the Year for Asia, Australia and New Zealand

Singapore, August 13, 2019 – McGallen & Bolden Group (https://mcgallen.com) was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie® Award in the PR Agency of the Year for Asia, Australia and New Zealand category in The 16th Annual International Business Awards® today.

The International Business Awards are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations. The 2019 IBAs received entries from 74 nations and territories.

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at a gala awards banquet at the ANDAZ Hotel am Belvedere, Vienna, Austria on 19 October.

A record total of more than 4,000 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Company of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Startup of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year, and Executive of the Year, among others. McGallen & Bolden Group won in the PR Agency of the Year for Asia, Australia and New Zealand category.

“We are grateful to the judges and their kind endorsement of our small agency in a highly competitive global award. We are also grateful to have placed consistently in the Asia Stevies and the International Business Awards,” said Dr Seamus Phan, CTO and head of content, McGallen & Bolden Group. “Against a tough business climate for clients and agencies especially amidst the global trade turmoil and declining economic conditions, we relentlessly improve business efficiencies (‘改善’ or ‘kaizen’), technology adoption, associate empowerment, and help clients with business strategy, branding and positioning, reputation building and protection, 360-degree marketing communication, and innovative leadership training and development. As one of the only boutique B2B (business-to-business) and tech PR agencies since the early 1990s still fiercely independent, we are proud to be the custodian of B2B PR and marketing.”

The agency has established its FlightLeaders division (https://flightleaders.com) for 3 years running, with interactive video, immersive flight deck simulations, and facilitated sessions for leadership development and crisis communication training, based on aviation best practices of Crew Resource Management (CRM) and Threat and Error Management (TEM) as well as strategies and tactics from ancient Asian classics such as the Analects, Hagakure and Gorinosho.

The agency has also helped clients with web development projects as the foundation of their digital marketing and social media marketing programs, with news sites, microsites, and full-fledged websites and e-commerce websites. This practice area started from the agency since 1996, with pioneering work done since the early birth of commercial Internet through the various evolutions. The agency is also an early pioneer in digital video since the 1990s, from non-linear editing (NLE), cinematic advertising, to current live-streaming on social media. The agency has an established news distribution platform Microwire.info (https://microwire.info).

Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 250 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process from May through early August.

“The IBA judges from across the world were highly impressed with the nominations they reviewed this year. With the level of achievement documented in the nominations from 74 nations, the Stevie Awards are proud to honor organizations that demonstrate a high level of achievement in a variety of industries” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. “We received more nominations than ever and look forward to honoring the Stevie winners at our gala in Vienna, Austria this October.”

Details about The International Business Awards and the lists of Stevie Award winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

About McGallen & Bolden Group
Founded in 1991 in Singapore (first as a design consultancy), McGallen & Bolden Group is today one of the most established “boutique” full service digital marketing and public relations consultancies focused on Asia Pacific. It is the lead agency for the Aurea Terras collective of independent agencies. The firm has consulted for government agencies, large multinational corporations, emerging technology enterprises, fast-moving consumer products companies, medical and pharmaceutical companies, etc. The small agency is an Internet technology pioneer since the inception of commercial Internet in the 1990s, and have kept pace with every facet of Internet and digital media development, with in-house expertise and managed infrastructure to serve clients’ needs. The firm is also an established corporate leadership, sales, media training and crisis communication provider since its inception. Visit https://mcgallen.com.

About the Stevie® Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 nominations each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.

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